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Two developers, sponsored by Google, will dedicate their time to addressing vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel as part of a wider effort to improve the security of open-source software. Google will sponsor a pair of developers to work full-time on bolstering the security of Linux.
Google and the Linux Foundation this week announced the prioritizing of funds to allow long-time Linux kernel maintainers Gustavo Silva and Nathan Chancellor to focus on improving the security of the platform. The pervasive Linux operating system, according to a recent report from the Linux Foundation's Open Source Security Foundation and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, needs additional work on security.
Google and the Linux Foundation announced they are prioritizing funds to underwrite two full-time maintainers for Linux kernel security development, Gustavo Silva and Nathan Chancellor. While there are thousands of Linux kernel developers, all of whom take security into consideration as the due course of their work, this contribution from Google to underwrite two full-time Linux security maintainers signals the importance of security in the ongoing sustainability of open source software.
Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2021.1, the latest version of its popular open source penetration testing platform. A few of the terminals have also been tweaked to - as the developers noted - "Kalify" them.
Together with the Linux Foundation, Google announced today that they would fund two Linux kernel developers' efforts as full-time maintainers exclusively focused on improving Linux security. "While there are thousands of Linux kernel developers, all of whom take security into consideration as the due course of their work, this contribution from Google to underwrite two full-time Linux security maintainers signals the importance of security in the ongoing sustainability of open-source software," the Linux Foundation said in a statement released today.
Worried about the security of Linux and open-source code, Google is sponsoring a pair of full-time developers to work on the kernel's security. Both are already working at the Linux Foundation, so what is new? "Gustavo's been working on the Linux kernel at the Linux Foundation for several years now," Lorenc tells us.
Linux Mint founder Clem Lefebvre has complained that too many users are slow to apply updates or run unsupported versions of the operating system. Linux Mint does not collect telemetry data from users, but used Yahoo! users as a sample to inspect the user agent of Linux Mint traffic - information sent from the browser with every request.
If you need to gather information on user logins for your Linux servers, Jack Wallen has just the tool for you. In other words, more than one user can be logged in at once.
Jack Wallen shows you how to gain a bit more security on your Linux servers by blocking users from adding cron jobs. You're a new Linux admin and you're familiar with how cron works.
Cryptocurrency-mining malware, called WatchDog, has been running under the radar for more than two years - in what researchers call one of the largest and longest-lasting Monero cryptojacking attacks to date. Thus far, attackers have hijacked at least 476 Windows and Linux devices, in order to abuse their system resources for mining Monero cryptocurrency.